CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Abbeys and Castles | H. James, Jr. | 434 |
| A Day's March through Finland | David Ker | [116] |
| A Few Letters | E. C. Hewitt | [111] |
| A Great Day. From the Italian of Edmondo de Amicis | 340 | |
| A Kentucky Duel | Will Wallace Harney | 578, 738 |
| A Law unto Herself | Rebecca Harding Davis | [39], 167, 292, 464, 614, 719 |
| Alfred de Musset | Sarah B. Wister | 478 |
| Among the Kabyles (Illustrated.) | Edward C. Bruce | 265, 406 |
| A Month in Sicily (Illustrated.) | Alfred T. Bacon | 649 |
| An English Easter | Henry James, Jr. | [50] |
| A Paduan Holiday (Illustrated.) | Charlotte Adams | 278 |
| A Portrait | Ita Aniol Prokop | 698 |
| A Summer Evening's Dream | Edward Bellamy | 320 |
| A Venetian of the Eighteenth Century | H. M. Benson | 347 |
| Baden and Allerheiligen (Illustrated.) | T. Adolphus Trollope | 535 |
| Brandywine, 1777 | Howard M. Jenkins | 329 |
| Captured by Cossacks. (Illustrated.) Extracts from Letters of a French Officer in 1813 | Joseph Diss Debar | 684 |
| Château Courance | John V. Sears | 235 |
| Chester and the Dee (Illustrated.) | Lady Blanche Murphy | 393, 521 |
| Communism in the United States | Austin Bierbower | 501 |
| Days of my Youth | M. T. | 712 |
| Down the Rhine (Illustrated.) | Lady Blanche Murphy | [9], 137 |
| Edinburgh Jottings (Illustrated.) | Alfred S. Gibbs | [28] |
| English Domestics and their Ways | Olive Logan | 758 |
| Folk-Lore of the Southern Negroes | William Owens | 748 |
| "For Percival." (Illustrated.) | 416, 546, 665 | |
| In a Russian "Trakteer" | David Ker | 247 |
| Irish Society in the Last Century | Eliza Wilson | 183 |
| Léonie Regnault: A Study from French Life | Mary E. Blair | [61] |
| Little Lizay | Sarah Winter Kellogg | 442 |
| London at Midsummer | H. James, Jr. | 603 |
| Madame Patterson-Bonaparte | 309 | |
| Ouida's Novels | Thomas Sergeant Perry | 732 |
| Our Blackbirds | Ernest Ingersoll | 376 |
| "Our Jook" | Henrietta H. Holdich | 494 |
| Primary and Secondary Education in France | C. H. Harding | [69] |
| Some Last Words from Sainte-Beuve | Sarah B. Wister | [104] |
| The Bass of the Potomac | W. Mackay Laffan | 455 |
| The Chef's Beefsteak | Virginia W. Johnson | 596 |
| The Church of St. Sophia | Hugh Craig | 629 |
| The Doings and Goings-on of Hired Girls | Mary Dean | 589 |
| The Flight of a Princess | W. A. Baillie-Grohman | 566 |
| The Marquis of Lossie | George Macdonald | [81], 210, 355 |
| The New Soprano | Penn Shirley | 249 |
| The Paris Cafés | Gilman C. Fisher | 202 |
| Verona. (Illustrated.) | Sarah B. Wister | 155 |
| Vina's "Ole Man." (Illustrated.) | Lizzie W. Champney | 194 |
Literature of the Day, comprising Reviews of the following Works:
| Avery, Benjamin Parke—Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse | 775 |
| Baker, M. A., James—Turkey | [135] |
| Burroughs, John—Birds and Poets | 516 |
| Dodge, R. I.—The Plains of the Great West and their Inhabitants | 262 |
| Doudan, X.—Mélanges et Lettres | 646 |
| Field, Marie E.—The Wings of Courage | 776 |
| Gill, W. F.—The Life of Edgar Allan Poe | 518 |
| Concourt, de, Edmond and Jules—Madame Gervaisais | 388 |
| Gréville, Henry—Les Koumiassine | 519 |
| Hoffman, Wickham—Camp, Court and Siege | 261 |
| Kismet | 392 |
| McCoan, J. C.—Egypt as it Is | 774 |
| Mazade, de, Charles—The Life of Count Cavour | 772 |
| Migerka, Catherine—Briefe aus Philadelphia (1876) an eine Freundin | 643 |
| Nimport | 642 |
| Parkman, Francis—Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV | 641 |
| Price, Major Sir Rose Lambart—The Two Americas | [132] |
| Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall)—An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes | [133] |
| Reid, T. Wemyss—Charlotte Brontë | 390 |
| Robinson, Leora B.—Patsy | 776 |
| Sherwood, Mary Neal—Jack. From the French of Alphonse Daudet | 645 |
| Squier, E. George—Peru | 259 |
| Synge, W. W. Follett—Olivia Raleigh | 518 |
| Wheaton, Campbell—Six Sinners; or, School-Days in Bantam Valley | 776 |
Our Monthly Gossip, comprising the following Articles:
A Cheering Sign, 258; A Crying Evil, 771; A Day at the Paris Conservatoire, 512; A Missing Item, 770; A Neglected Branch of Philology, 385; Another Defunct Monopoly, 386; Artistic Jenkinsism, 640; Brigham Young and Mormonism, 514; Fernan Caballero, 761; Foreign Leaders in Russia and Turkey, 765; François Buloz, 382; Friend Abner in the North-West, 254; How shall we Call the Birds? 256; Katerfelto in Repose, 387; "Les Naufragés de Calais," 637; Miridite Courtship, 253; Notes from Moscow, 509; Punching the Drinks, [130]; Realistic Art, 639; Russian and Turkish Music, 636; The Coming Elections in France, [127]; The Dead of Paris, [122]; The Departure of the Imperial Guards, 768; The Education of Women in India, 515; The Modern French Novelists, 379; The Nautch-Dancers of India, [132]; The Octroi, 763; The Religious Struggle at Geneva, [125]; Von Moltke in Turkey, [129]; Water-Lilies, 384.
Poetry:
| A Wish | Henrietta R. Eliot | 308 |
| Fog | Emma Lazarus | 207 |
| For Another | S. M. B. Piatt | 405 |
| From the Flats | Sidney Lanier | [115] |
| "God's Poor" | E. R. Champlin | 711 |
| Heine (Buch der Lieder) | Charles Quiet | 354 |
| Selim | Annie Porter | 755 |
| Song | Oscar Laighton | 545 |
| Sven Duva. From the Swedish of Johan Ludvig Runeberg | C. Rosell | 611 |
| The Bee | Sidney Lanier | 493 |
| The Chrysalis of a Bookworm | Maurice F. Egan | 463 |
| The Dream of St. Theresa | Epes Sargent | 565 |
| The Elixir | Emma Lazarus | [60] |
| The Marsh | S. Weir Mitchell | 245 |
| The Sweetener | Mary B. Dodge | [49] |
| To Sleep | Emilie Poulsson | 201 |